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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
in cali you should go to a good community college first, and transfer to the university, it is cheaper, easier, and more effective. You often have the same instructors as they teach part time across the area to make some $$$ and build up resume experience, and also, you will relieve the burden of the terribly clogged California public university system, which is a mess right now to overcrowding and corruption.
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No thanks. I've come to realize how much the "mainstream" students (or "non-AP" students, which sounds condescending anyway you put it) really hate me and my fellow classmates. They really think we're all nerds and total losers (which isn't true, damn it!). During the disaster drill my Calculus teacher had us take out our assignment on the field because she thought it was a waste of time, and I overheard a bunch of other kids mocking us. "OH! We gotta study!" "Hey guys, let's bring our homework with us because math is F-U-N!" As pretentious or snotty as it may sound, I don't mix well with those who go to community college. I mean, I have plenty of friends who aren't in AP classes, and I like a lot of them, but I'd much prefer to be around those of similar mind sets and intelligence. I hate saying it because of how snobby it makes me sound, but it really is true! A friend and I had actually talked about making a documentary about what each group of people in our school thought of the other for the Film Festival in May. It probably won't happen though.
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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
awesome, you can be prezzident of nerdistan-- i recall that "boy's state" and your no-boy experience there. but in any case, yeah you bastard, don't sell yourself short, go for the win. will and grace or no will and grace, you have it in you to shake the shit in this land, if you so wish.
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Yeah. I am a geek at heart, but it isn't like I don't have social skills. Today a bunch of "AP Scholars" (those who took 3 or more AP tests and passed at least 2 of them) and I had our pictures taken for the school newspaper. I tried to get out of it just to save myself the embarrassment, but it was a big group photo so I figured that I'd be lost in the crowd anyway.
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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
completely false in alex's case. one benefits from one's classmates as much if not often more than from one's teachers. bekerley gets some of the smartest motherfuckers on this planet, some of which study to run and repair supercolliders, not air conditioners. to miss a chance to go to a place like that would be sheer and utter goofiness from his part-- cost be damned!
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Agree. Agree. Agree.